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A band of brothers.
This is an interesting paragraph from John O'NEill's book "Unfit For
Command". (page 184)

John Kerry has strangely sought to invoke a heroic Shakespearian image drawn
from Henry V—a small "band of brothers" outnumbered by a large French army
at Agincourt. Imagine how that English army would have felt about a
"brother" who had met privately with the French, as Kerry did with the North
Vietnamese, while the battle was still joined. Or about a "brother" who left
in an abbreviated and controversial way after barely one-third of a normal
tour of duty, only to return home and claim that his "brothers" who still
remained in combat were war criminals. As the bard wrote in Act IV, Scene
III, "He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart... we would not
die in that man's company."